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The American Dream, Updated?

In Los Angeles, recent interest in ADUs prompts an honest look at the housing type

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The Goldilocks Framework

How to respond to both population growth and climate change? High-density, low-rise housing plus current technologies offer one solution.

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Mott Heaven

In the Bronx, COOKFOX delivers sustainable, affordable public housing for seniors

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Guarded Optimism

Decision to pause border barrier work at binational Friendship Park welcomed by community advocates

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Behind The Line

The visions for NEOM, Saudi Arabia’s linear megacity in the desert, reveal contemporary shortcomings more than a future utopia

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Black Landscapes Matter

Walter Hood speaks with AN about his practice and the role of reflective nostalgia today

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This Is America

Reset, now on view at the Center for Architecture, shows us what’s possible when we work together

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Back to the Wall

Construction work to continue on 30-foot barriers at binational Friendship Park

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The Once and Future Bridge

Can the Sixth Street Viaduct predict the future of Los Angeles?

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Bear Trap

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveils trio of renovation schemes for historic Soldier Field

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Motor City Remake

Underused park at the foot of Detroit’s transformed Michigan Central Station is getting a $6 million makeover

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Back to the Bruces

L.A. County returns Bruce’s Beach to namesake family nearly a century after racist land grab

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Natural High

Denver opens an elevated promenade along the Platte River designed by Tres Birds and Wenk Associates

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Things Will Be Great When You’re...

Exhibit Columbus’s University Design Research Fellowship Competition seeks downtown-activating visions

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Dead Space Comes Alive

A greenery-swaddled community space opens beneath an elevated highway in Mumbai

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Dream Big

Chicago unveils a lofty waterfront proposal for a revamped Museum Campus

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Roaring Riverfront

Middletown, Connecticut’s Riverbend Master Plan will reconnect the city to its forgotten waterway

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Something Old, Something Zoo

Michigan seeks public input for revitalization of Detroit’s long-abandoned Belle Isle Zoo

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